National Steelband Music Festival - Orchestra Preliminaries
Republic Bank Exodus and CAL Invaders will be first bands on stage as the National Steelband Music Festival Pan Is Beautiful XII enters the Orchestra Preliminaries Round.
Fourteen (14) steel orchestras are slated to compete over a period of two (2) days ie Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Each orchestra is required to play the Test Piece “Mr. Pan Maker” composed by Dr. Leroy (Black Stalin) Calliste and a Piece of choice. The latter will not only test the skill of the player, but will also highlight the beauty and versatility of the National Instrument. It is to be played in accordance with the musical score “as submitted by the Orchestra and to be performed for a period not exceeding twelve (12) minutes with the total playing time of each Orchestra not exceeding eighteen (18) minutes”.
Orchestra in this instance means any combination of Pannists/Musicians playing steelpan instruments and “that such a combination contains no less than 35 musicians and no more than 50 players inclusive of rhythm”.
The playing positions are as follows:-
| Saturday 19th October - Showtime: 6:00 pm | Sunday 20th October - Showtime: 5:00 pm | ||
| 1. | Republic Bank Exodus | 8. | CAL Invaders |
| 2. | T&TEC Tropical Angel Harps | 9. | Diatonic |
| 3. | CLICO Sforzata | 10. | NGC Couva Joylanders |
| 4. | San City Steel Symphony | 11. | Pan Elders |
| 5. | Courts Sound Specialists of Laventille | 12. | U.W.I. Festival |
| 6. | bp Renegades | 13. | Sangre Grande Cordettes |
| 7. | Codrington Pan Family | 14. | NGC La Brea Nightingales |
Four (4) Adjudicators inclusive of an Alternate will officiate at competition.
Advanced tickets are priced at $100. on each day, and are on sale at Cleve’s Frederick Street, Crosby’s St. James, Kam’s Long Circular Mall, and at Pan Trinbago’s Head Office, Park Street, Port of Spain.
t the end of the exercise, eight (8) finalists will be chosen on merit to compete in the Finals on Saturday 16 November at the Jean Pierre Complex, Wrightson Road Extension, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
